This year, Time has picked the collective us as the Person of the Year. It is not the first time that Time has selected a group instead of a person for the title and this year, they have decided to honour the explosive phenomena of the blogosphere, YouTube, MySpace, Flickr, and the whole slew of Web 2.0 community sites.

This year has proved to be an exciting year for online social networking and people are starting to take notice and feel the impact of involvement by netizens in the forms of content contribution, citizen journalism and personal publishing and broadcasting, to name but a few.

The article features a number of personalities who have made use of such platforms as community sites, blogs, and websites to share information and commentary on their lives and the people and happenings around them. We are particularly touched by the stories of Ali Kurshid (young photographer in Karachi, Pakistan who shares his photos on Flickr), Lee Kelly (mil-blogger who writes from the front lines), Waz and Lenny (British couple who host an alternative kind of cooking show) and Harriet Klausner (the quinquagenarian speed reader who has written over 12,000 book reviews on Amazon). Each is a living and inspring story of how the Internet is changing the way we live, communicate, share and most importantly, bond and spread love for one another.